Program Overview

Digital Content Management Certificate

Program Overview

The Digital Content Management Graduate Academic Certificate prepares information professionals to meet the challenges of managing the life cycle of digital assets regardless of their types and formats or their method of delivery.

Program Type

• Graduate Academic Certificate

Format

• Online

Estimated Time to Complete

• 1 year

Credit Hours

• 12

Program Description

The Digital Content Management Graduate Academic Certificate program provides valuable career skills for potential and practicing information professionals who foresee being in a position to collect, organize, evaluate, or provide service to users on digital information.

Why Earn a Digital Content Management Certificate?

UNT's Digital Content Management Graduate Academic Certificate program helps library and information science professionals develop expertise in managing digital information by taking additional graduate-level courses to receive an academic credential, as well as bachelor's or master's degreed individuals who work in careers that deal with large amounts of information.

Program Courses

• Introduction to Digital Libraries (3 hrs)
  • This course introduces the student to current research and the conceptual, practical, and technical issues in digital libraries.
• Information Retrieval Design (3 hrs)
  • Study of design considerations in computer-based information retrieval systems, including conventional inverted file systems using Boolean logic and automatically indexed vector–oriented systems.
• Metadata and Networked Information Organization and Retrieval (3 hrs)
  • Representation, organization and retrieval of networked information resources (NIR) using various forms of metadata.
• Information Architecture (3 hrs)
  • This course introduces students to the basic concepts and components of Information Architecture, within the context of end-user and organizational needs.

Related Programs

• Information Science and Knowledge Organization Degree
• Information Management Science and Health Informatics Degree

Similar Areas of Study

• Data Analytics & Information

Department and College

• Department of Information Science
• College of Information

Location

• Discovery Park, Suite E292

University Information

• 1155 Union Circle
• Denton, Texas